Tilera Unveils Details for Multicore Chips

Start-Up Says Its Design
Could Be Used for Products
With 1,000 Microprocessors

By

Don Clark

Updated Aug. 20, 2007 12:01 a.m. ET

Some companies are racing to put a handful of electronic brains on a computer chip. Others, such as Tilera Corp., are laying the groundwork for much more complex creations.

The Silicon Valley start-up, drawing on research that emerged in 1996 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, today is providing the first details of its 64-processor chip -- and an underlying design that it says could be used for products with more than...